Bobby “Shaggy” Crawford, 38, a mailroom worker in the New York City offices of the Heart Corporation, has apparently been writing letters to skateboard magazines (and other publications) for 15 years, according to a story in the New York Times. Now, thanks to all his hard work, the paper of record is giving him a little media play of his own in the form of a profile.
Mr. Crawford has been delivering mail at the Hearst Corporation for 13 years, regaling everyone from interns to executives with tales of his skateboarding escapades. But what most of the writers, editors and arbiters to whom he delivers letters and packages do not realize is that he has been published in more magazines than many of them. . . More than 100 of his letters have been printed in their pages.
Slap’s Mark Whiteley says the guy sticks at it. “Shaggy was relentless. He’d send letters every month. Sometimes they were terrible, sometimes they were pointless, sometimes they were just too harsh to print. But a lot of the time they were hilarious.”
Shaggy is definitely a dying breed. While most other cranks have started their own blogs, it appears that Shaggy is going to keep writing until there are no more letters sections left to fill. Which shouldn’t be all that long.
On September 25, 2010 Rob Dyrdek wrapped up the first season of Street League at Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Arena with Australian Nike SB rider Shane O’Neill taking the top spot. With a third place finish Nyjah Huston grabbed the overall title and the $20,000 diamond encrusted Nixon Watch.
It was a solid ender for events that have garnered mixed reviews. While no one can deny that Street League put down some of the best competition street skateboarding on record, many who have tried to watch the Street League TV shows (us included) have been shocked by how clinical the events come off looking in the absence of a jam format. Watching skateboarders do one trick or one line one at a time and then waiting for a score can get tedious very quickly. But we’re confident Rob Dyrdek will have no problem fixing all this for next year. The guy is the master of delivering exactly what people (and sponsors) want.
Final Results
Street League #3
1. Shane O’Neill
2. Chris Cole
3. Nyjah Huston
4. Chaz Ortiz
5. Ryan Sheckler
6. Paul Rodriguez
7. Greg Lutzka
Today the final Street League Qualifiers of the season are going down at The Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas and tomorrow a champion will be named. What better way to prepare for the finals than to catch event 1 and 2 online. Both the Arizona and SoCal stops of Street League are now up on the ESPN/Action site. Check out stop one above, or click here for stop two.
We just can’t get enough of Shaun White around here and that’s about to change because Ubisoft, the makers of Shaun White Skateboarding, has just announced that Shaun’s game will soon support stereoscopic displays on 3DTVs, according to a post on Gamasutra.
Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the title will use Sensio 3D technology, which Ubisoft last used in last year’s release of Avatar: The Game. . . “The gaming experience is very sensitive to image quality, and we know from past collaboration with Sensio that the company’s Sensio 3D format delivers the highest-quality images,” said Shaun White Skateboarding Executive Producer Patrick Naud.
It will be great to see that rich, thick, forest of red hair flowing right out of the TV as Shaun shreds past. Wonder if Shaun will do some signature Oakley 3-D glasses to go along with it?
Cohl Orebaugh, 14, of Liberty Lake, Washington is reportedly the new Guiness Book of World Records record holder for “most blunt to fakies” in an hour (794), according to The Spokesman-Review.
I thought I did pretty good,” he said. . . Orebaugh said he exceeded his expectations when he completed 794 blunts and fakies in an hour at Pavillion Park in Liberty Lake. He expected to do around 500 of them.
It is difficult to believe that it was only a year ago that news began getting out that Transworld Skateboarding Editor Eric Stricker had died. Guess when you miss someone it seems like they’ve been gone so much longer than they actually have.
We didn’t hang out with Eric, travel with him, or spend the kind of time that so many in the skate industry did, but every single time we saw him we left happier and more stoked on skateboarding than when we’d arrived. Whenever we had a stupid skateboarding history question or a “what’s the story behind this guy” query, Stricker always, no matter what deadline he was on, took a minute or ten to give the answer or tell the story. It was almost as if he wasn’t doing it for us, he was doing it for skateboarding. He wanted to make sure the stories all got out correctly. Which is what made him such a great magazine editor.
Today our thoughts are with everyone who had the gift or being close to Eric. Especially his family.
When the bloated former pop singer Britney Spears goes shopping for a new skateboard she heads straight to her local mall and drops in on Zumiez, according to a story on People.com.
Britney Spears had an active afternoon with her boys Preston and Jayden: The trio headed to the Westfield Topanga, the pop star’s neighborhood shopping mall in Canoga Park, Calif., where Spears stopped into Zumiez, a snowboarding and skateboarding shop.
The blingineers at Nixon have created an extremely icy timepiece for the overall winner of Street League which will be named in Las Vegas on September 25, 2010.
The Champion will be awarded a one-of-a-kind Nixon 5130 Ceramic watch adorned with 12.76 carats of diamonds.
For those who believe wearing their fortune on their wrist is the best idea ever, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Broadcast Wheels have released their new FW2010 catalog and placed it on their website. Make no mistake, we’re not really sure we why we even like this stuff. Maybe it’s because their filmer wheels have the words, “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” on them. Go figure.
It’s good to know that even we could give Tony Hawk a run in a game of Skate Nerd. Lance Mountain, on the other hand, is on a whole different level. The guy could be world champion.
Bobby “Shaggy” Crawford, 38, a mailroom worker in the New York City offices of the Heart Corporation, has apparently been writing letters to skateboard magazines (and other publications) for 15 years, according to a story in the New York Times. Now, thanks to all his hard work, the paper of record is giving him a little media play of his own in the form of a profile.
